To succeed financially as a portrait painter the surest path for someone new to the field is probably to paint what you see a lot of on the successful artists' sites elsewhere on SOG.
Could you possibly become a new sensation with offbeat subjects (pregnant women, bare chested boys)? Sure, maybe, but I think the odds are strongly against it. If you want to know what most clients commission, look at what artists who've been doing this for twenty years are showing on their sites.
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